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เหตุ

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Northern Thai

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Etymology

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From Pali hetu (case, matter; cause, motive, reason; root; etc) or Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, idem).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเหตุ
e h t u
Phonemicเหด
e h ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonhèet
Royal Institutehet
(Chiang Mai) IPA(key)/heːt̚˨˩/
(Chiang Rai) IPA(key)/heːt̚˩˩/

Noun

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เหตุ (hèet)

  1. cause, reason

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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เหตุ m

  1. Thai script form of hetu
  2. Thai script (without implicit vowels) form of hetu

Declension

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Declension with implicit vowels:

Declension without implicit vowels:

Thai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Pali hetu (case, matter; cause, motive, reason; root; etc) or Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, idem); possibly via Old Khmer ហេតុ (hetu, because; cause, reason; etc). Cognate with Lao ເຫດ (hēt), Modern Khmer ហេតុ (haet), Northern Thai ᩉᩮ᩠ᨲᩩ (hēt).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicเหตุ
e h t u
Phonemic
เหด
e h ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonhèet
Royal Institutehet
(standard) IPA(key)/heːt̚˨˩/(R)

Noun

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เหตุ (hèet)

  1. cause, factor; ground, reason
  2. event; incident; situation; happening; occurrence; circumstance
  3. (archaic) account; note; record

Conjunction

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เหตุ (hèet)

  1. because; because of

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • เหตุ” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.